PEDIATRICS Vol. 88 No. 4 October 1991, pp. 696-704
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Pediatric Interhospital Critical Care Transport: Consensus of a National Leadership Conference

Susan Day MD1, Karin McCloskey MD2, Richard Orr MD3, Robert Bolte MD4, Daniel Notterman MD5, and Alvin Hackel MD6

1 From the Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
2 From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama in Birmingham, Children's Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham;
3 From the Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
4 From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Primary Children's Medical Center, Salt Lake City
5 From the Department of Pediatrics, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York
6 From the Departments of Anesthesia and Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California

As pediatric interhospital critical care transport has evolved toward a distinct discipline, practitioners in this field have recognized the need for guidelines for transport program development and patient care. At a gathering of medical directors of pediatric transport programs, the following topics were discussed: team composition and transport staffing, training requirements for pediatric and nonpediatric transport teams, goals and design of a transport data base, and medical-legal issues, including the responsibilities of the referring and receiving institutions. Consensus recommendations were made for the major issues in each of these areas. Several questions were raised which may be answered by multiinstitutional studies.

Key Words: pediatric interhospital transport • critical care transport

Submitted on August 3, 1990
Accepted on October 10, 1990